Quotemeal: Sep. 24th, 2009

Thursday, September 24, 2009

"We don't seem to want to worship a God who's too big, too authoritative. We seem more comfortable with a deity who's more manageable."
— Mark Finley

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"The mind justifies what the heart has chosen."
— Author Unknown —
"We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable."
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn —
"To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us."
— John Henry Newman —
"Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are not an "accident," but a divine choice."
— Henri Nouwen —

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Illustration of Mark Finley — "We don't seem to want to worship a God who's too big, too authoritative. We seem more comfortable with a deity who's more manageable."

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